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Amazon used enough plastic air packets in its boxes to circle the planet 800 times in 2021, an outside group found. The company said it used far less.
Amazon for the first time shared how much plastic packaging it used. The group Oceana estimated the…
Catherine Boudreau
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I grew up in Orlando, Florida. Here's 7 things tourists should know before vacationing in the Sunshine State.
Florida's amusement parks are always fun, but according to Insider's reporter, locals advise going …
Lauren Edmonds
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Hawaii lawmakers just approved a measure to fine people $500 for intentionally releasing balloons into the atmosphere
Supporters of the measure say it will decrease the pollution that is harmful to the state's marine …
Connor Perrett
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The supply chain crisis is wreaking havoc on the environment as carbon emissions from ships and seaports reach the highest rate since 2008
Emissions at the heavily backlogged ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are up by double and two-th…
Bethany Biron
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These are the US troops that lost their lives during the terror attack in Kabul
Thirteen US service members were killed at the Kabul airport on Thursday in a deadly ISIS-K suicide…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell,Erin …
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For the US's Vietnam-era covert special operators, the quietest missions were also the most dangerous
MACV-SOG commandos were sent behind enemy lines to gather intelligence, but the enemy himself was o…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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An influencer has apologized after she left graffiti on ancient chalk cliffs
Influencer Alexandra Milam's handle was spotted among hundreds of tags on Durdle Door, ancient chal…
Anneta Konstantinides
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19 types of pollution you might encounter every day that could hurt your health, from radioactive toxins to cancer-causing chemicals
Burning fossil fuels like oil and natural gas, for instance, emits harmful air pollutants like benz…
Aylin Woodward
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An edible straw made of seaweed could soon replace polluting plastic straws
Though Loliware isn't the first company to ppropose an compostable alternative to plastic straws, B…
Aria Bendix
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Tiny pellets called 'nurdles' are leeching into the ocean. A new Shell plant could produce 80 trillion of them a year.
Manufacturing companies use nurdles to make virgin plastic - plastic that hasn't previously been re…
Aria Bendix
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In some countries, people face jail time for using plastic bags. Here are all the places that have banned plastic bags and straws so far.
Plastic bags that wind up in the ocean entangle and kill roughly 100,000 marine mammals each year. …
Aylin Woodward
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Half a million mussels cooked to death at a New Zealand beach likely because of climate change
"New Zealand's oceans act like a giant sponge against the effects of climate change," New Zealand's…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Megalodons may have grown to the size of school buses by eating their shark siblings in the womb, new research suggests
Megalodons were the biggest sharks on the planet. Recent studies show how these apex predators reac…
Aylin Woodward
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A major chemical company is building roads made of recycled plastic. They've already stopped 220,000 pounds of waste from ending up in landfills.
In 2017, Dow partnered with the Indonesian government to keep the country's plastic waste from ente…
Aria Bendix
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Mattis chooses America over Trump
General Mattis' letter frames the questions that many Americans will have to face: declare loyalty …
David Plotz,Henry Blodget
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Americans throw away 3.4 million tons of plastic bags a year - can Hawaii's new ban change that?
Supermarkets use layers and layers of flimsy plastic bags to pack purchases. The average American t…
Shivam Saini
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Why the fall of the Medellin cartel failed to stop the flow of drugs, according to a DEA agent who hunted Escobar
The most recent example of that dynamic is the turmoil within and around the Sinaloa cartel. The ar…
Christopher Woody
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A Group Of Guys Are Sailing 500 Miles On A Boat They Built From Plastic Bottles
In the Czech town of Nymburk, two young men grew tired of the relentless pollution in Europe and ac…
Christina Sterbenz
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There's a heartbreaking amount of plastic on this Caribbean beach
Long Caye is tiny, just 2.5 miles long and barely a mile wide. Its 683 acres are covered mostly in …
Justin Catanoso
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NASA has found evidence that an ice-covered moon of Saturn could sustain alien life
"For decades we have been asking the question, 'Does water equal life'?" Sykes said. "From modeling…